Hello to everyone, Please forgive the multiple posts that I'll be making today, but I didn't want to lump everything into one topic and confuse everyone. I promise to not make overposting a habbit and the other posts will be shorter than this one.
In any case, my birth name is Tiffany but I intend on switching legally to Eleni, so that's what I'll be using here. Some of you may know me from Facebook, from the Zone or from other places. I'm 26 and I've loved MS-DOS ever since I was a teenager. I've used Windows for 14 years with JFW, Hal, a demo of WindowEyes and NVDA and have also used Leopard and Snow Leopard. Recently, however, I've found a system called Enhanced DR-DOS. It's based off DR-DOS and is 100% MS-DOS compatible but is still being updated to keep it modern. My intention is to switch to it for most things. To that end, I'm in the process of having a truly custom desktop built. I'm wondering if you could recommend or help me find some DOS and screenreader-Compatible technology and software such as a flatbed scanner and/or accessible ocr software, a bar code reader, an internet browser, a txt and/or rtf editor, a spreadsheet program and anything else that comes to mind. I know that there is alot of software and hardware out there, some older and some newer, but it's difficult finding out what's accessible and what's not and this is even more a problem when the software is commercial, since I'd then be stuck with something that I can't use. On the other hand, most of the places that sold the adaptive technology no longer have it or no longer exist. I'm especially interested in ocr and am considering Omnipage but don't know which is the last version for DOS. I have Recognita but not the latest one and have been searching for an Open Book Unbound but can't find it and am not sure what scanners work with it. I e-mailed Benetech but got no response. I have a Braille Blazer and two external Echos and a non-working Accent SA, so I don't immediately need a synthesizer. That said, I really would love to find something better, especially a KeyNote SA or Companion (looking for seven years with no luck), an Apollo capable of speaking in Greek or a DecTalk Express or PC. I own a KeyNote Gold Laptop with the Voicecard inside and adore the speech, but am worried about transferring it to another computer due to it's fragility. I also have Word Perfect 5.1 and it's text editor, though as you'll see in another post, it's acting a bit strangely with VocalEyes. NoteWorthy is wonderful, but since it's a tsr, it can only handle small files and I only have the demo. I know that no selling etc. is allowed on the list, but if you have a piece of technology that you think might benefit me, please e-mail me offlist. Thanks, Eleni For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
